Bale-tie splice



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PATENT OFFICE.

FREDERICK BOMMARIUS, OF NEW ORLEANS, LOUISIANA.

BALE-Tl E SPLICE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 295,340, dated March18, 1884.

Application Sled January 10, 1884. (No model.)

Lib all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, FREDERICK BoMMAniUs, of N ew Orleans, in the parishof Orleans and State of Louisiana, have invented a new and usefulImprovement in Bale-Tie Splices, of which the following isa full, clear,and exact description.

The object of this invention is to produce a simple, firm, durable, andeconomical bandsplicing tie applicable to the baling of cotton or othermaterials, and has reference to metallic bands such as are now used inbaling cotton.

In baling cotton the reduction which takes place in the sizes oi' thebales by the act of compression and drawing the ends ofthe bands, so asto tighten and secure them by the usual buckles or other fastenings,leaves a surplus in the lengths of the bands, which surplus isordinarily wasted as scrap. This waste amounts to many feet ot' band ina few bales,- and my invention consists in utilizing these scraps orshort lengths of band by` splicing or uniting them, substantially ashereinafter described, and`whereby all Waste is avoided andthelappingends of the band sections or lengths are easily and firmly united withone another, and are not liable to become loosened or detached byjarring, as when the splicing is secured by rivets.

Reference is to be had to the accompanying drawings, forming a part ofthis specification, in which similar letters of reference indicatecorresponding parts iu all the gures.

Figure l represents a view in perspective of the lapping end portions oftwo band sections or lengths spliced and secured in accordance with myinvention. Fig. 2 is a longitudinal section of thef same, and Fig. 3 atransverse section thereof` on the line rcx in Fig. 2. Fig.

4 is a longitudinal sectional view through the completed bale-tie.

A A are the lapping end portions of two sections or lengths of atie-band, composed of a series o f such sections as formed from theWaste or surplus ot' ordinary baling-bands and similarly spliced orunited to make up a complete band. These lapping ends are stamped or cutand bent to produce or form in their faces slit loops b b, which t intoor engage with one another, and are secured when so engaged by aseparate transverse key, c, passed through or Withinvthe inner loop, andwhich key may be the blank stamped out of the buckle used in A are alsosecured (and this may be done at the same time as forming the slitloops) by locking-lips d d, produced by indenting and cutany desireddistance from the slit loops b b.

rlhere may be any number of these lockinglips, as also any number of theslit loops, in each spliced portion of the band-sections, and the twomeans of fastening combined serve to secure a most effective resistance,that insures a solid and durable connection, and that Will prevent anydismemberment of the sectionally-constructed band when exposed tostrain. I am aware that a bale-band has been formed through theiroverlapping ends,and a key passing through said loops, is not new; also,that it is not new to provide a bale-band made of a vsingle piece ofmaterial with punched interlocking longitudinal and transverse slots andindentation at their overlapping ends,but without a key.

Having thus described myinvcntion, l claim as nenr and desire to secureby Letters Patent- A bale-band formed of pieces of scraper Wastematerial A A", united at their adjacent ends by the longitudinal slitloops b b, transverse lockinglips d d, and a key, c, passing throughloops (l d, substantially as set forth.

FREDERICK BOMMARIUS. Witnesses:

J. XV. RAABE, M. HERNANDEZ.

uniting the entire band. Said lapping ends A k ting the lapped endsofthe band-sections at v ofa single piece ofnietal having loops punched7c

